By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Four soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed on Monday in a shoot-out with militants near the Afghan border, the military said, as a wave of attacks on security forces continued across the country.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military said on Saturday that it had foiled a terrorist attack on a training air base of the Pakistan Air Force, killing all nine assailants who tried to storm the facility in the early hours of the day.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The military said on Saturday that it had foiled a terrorist attack on a training air base of the Pakistan Air Force, killing three assailants and cornering three others.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people were killed, mostly soldiers, in three separate attacks on Friday in the western provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which border Afghanistan, officials said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cast doubt on Pakistan’s ability to meet its ambitious tax collection goal for the current fiscal year, as lower imports and legal challenges pose risks to revenue growth, officials said on Friday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) began the first review of a $3 billion bailout package on Thursday, with both sides expressing early satisfaction over the country’s progress in meeting the fiscal and monetary targets set by the lender.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court intervenes to end election impasse, sets Feb. 8 as polling date. Ex-PM Sharif back in the fray after four years in exile, while jailed Khan remains sidelined.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s annual inflation rate eased to 26.9 percent in October, the lowest level in 10 months, as food and fuel prices dropped sharply, official data showed on Wednesday.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Shell Petroleum Company Limited (SPCo), the parent company of Shell Pakistan Limited (SPL), has agreed to sell its domestic operations to Saudi Arabia’s Wafi Energy LLC, a fuel retailer, for an undisclosed amount, the companies said on Wednesday.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan began a nationwide crackdown on Wednesday against thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly Afghans, who failed to leave the country by a government-imposed deadline that expired at midnight on Tuesday.
